**Subject:** Re: Senate letter



Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 15:18:06 +0000



I think □ draft is fine.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 11, 2019, at 10:38 AM,

As and know well from Cohen, OLA’s general guidance to us has been either not to respond at all, or to respond by parroting back a combination of the question and stuff already in the public record. Here’s my initial effort at mapping that guidance onto this question:

As the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York stated yesterday, the investigation into the conduct charged in the Indictment previously filed against Epstein – which included a conspiracy count – remains ongoing, and any evidence or potential testimony relating to that investigation will be handled by the Department accordingly.

I'm going to be tied up from about 11-12 but happy to chat before/after if that would be helpful.



I think they would like a draft response sometime today. I don’t think it’s necessary to loop in OLA, but I would draft our response conservatively in accord with their past guidance. Geoff



We can put something together - do you have a sense of timing/deadline?

Also, for requests made directly to us, we have been looping in OLA which typically wants to be involved and has pretty strong guidance on what, if anything, we should say. I don’t know if that’s appropriate here given that the request was made directly to OAG, but just wanted to flag.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 11, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS) < > wrote:

See below and attached letter. Can we draft a response for AG to Q 4? Geoff

Begin forwarded message:

EFTA00077552

Geoff: Please see question 4 in the attached letter. I’m not sure exactly what he’s asking but can you please provide a preliminary response to Question 4.

Thanks.



<08-10-2019---sasse-letter-to-ag-barr-re-epstein-suicide.pdf>

EFTA00077553